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Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

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Re: Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

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These stickers would make me angry at the market itself. If they are bad products, why are you trying to sell them to me? Carry something from a brand that doesn't employ dark patterns to deceive me. It's literally the job of the market to editorialize and choose the best options for the limited shelf space.

Those brands are too popular that if you take them off the shelf, you are driving customers away from your store too.

Re: Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

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If you as a shopper can track the unit price of what you want to buy, does shrinkflation really matter? For example, if I want to buy a liter of soda, I'll buy a liter's worth regardless of whether the packaging is now smaller.

Rules and regulations should make it easier and always blaming the user is how you get into this type of mess.

No, the client being to lazy to make uninformed decisions him- or herself is the mess here. Most countries require a price per liter/per kilo anyway, so you always can compare.

And if you can’t, more regulation won’t make that happen, either, see the failed "Nutri Score".

Re: Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

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post #393

These stickers would make me angry at the market itself. If they are bad products, why are you trying to sell them to me? Carry something from a brand that doesn't employ dark patterns to deceive me. It's literally the job of the market to editorialize and choose the best options for the limited shelf space.

Those brands are too popular that if you take them off the shelf, you are driving customers away from your store too.

Also, French supermarkets have a long history of bullying AAA labels, nudging customers to buy their "home label" copy cat alternatives instead.

Re: Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

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If you as a shopper can track the unit price of what you want to buy, does shrinkflation really matter? For example, if I want to buy a liter of soda, I'll buy a liter's worth regardless of whether the packaging is now smaller.

They don't let you buy 1/3rd of a bottle :(

Re: Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

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If you as a shopper can track the unit price of what you want to buy, does shrinkflation really matter? For example, if I want to buy a liter of soda, I'll buy a liter's worth regardless of whether the packaging is now smaller.

Usually shrinkflation is more subtle, eg the same size bottle has a spacer on the bottom so it's the same size as the 1l bottle but only holds 900ml. No way to buy 1l at that point, and most people don't memorize the unit prices

Re: Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

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My pet peeve is that price per round measurement unit (eg kilogram) is in tiny writing compared to product cost, even though they are arguably equally important. Given that the former is mandated, they should also mandate that they appear in equal size fonts on price labels.

Yeah Safeway typically shows price per unit, but Trader Joe’s (which is often thought of as a ‘friendly’ grocery) never does. I wish they did!

Re: Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rules and regulations should make it easier and always blaming the user is how you get into this type of mess.

No, the client being to lazy to make uninformed decisions him- or herself is the mess here. Most countries require a price per liter/per kilo anyway, so you always can compare. And if you can’t, more regulation won’t make that happen, either, see the failed "Nutri Score".

See the greatly successful nutrition info block on everything in the US.

Re: Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rules and regulations should make it easier and always blaming the user is how you get into this type of mess.

No, the client being to lazy to make uninformed decisions him- or herself is the mess here. Most countries require a price per liter/per kilo anyway, so you always can compare. And if you can’t, more regulation won’t make that happen, either, see the failed "Nutri Score".

no-one commits the price for litre/kg to memory
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